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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Manufacturing and wholesale distribution.

Article L5124-11

A pharmaceutical establishment exporting a medicinal product must ask the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé to certify that it holds the authorisation referred to in…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article L5134-111

Aid for future employment may be granted to the following employers: 1° Private not-for-profit organisations; 2° Local authorities and groups of local authorities; 3° Other legal entities governed by…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Controlling epidemics and certain communicable diseases.

Article L3821-11

Title III of Book I of this Part is applicable in the Wallis and Futuna Islands in the version resulting from Law no. 2022-1089 of 30 July 2022 putting an end to the exceptional regimes created to com…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Combating the international spread of disease.

Article L3115-11

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat: 1° Pursuant to the 2005 International Health Regulations: a) The criteria for designating points of entry to the territory, particularly w…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 3: Refusal and subordination of sales and services

Article L121-11

It is prohibited to refuse a consumer the sale of a product or the provision of a service, unless there is a legitimate reason for doing so; It is also prohibited to make the sale of a product conditi…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Provisions adapting Book I.

Article L941-11

Article L. 145-2 is amended as follows: I.-In 4°, the words: "to the State, départements, communes, public establishments" are replaced by the words: "to the State, local authorities and public establ…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the family court

Article 373-2-11

When deciding how parental authority is to be exercised, the judge shall in particular take into consideration: 1° The practice previously followed by the parents or any agreements they may have previ…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1a: Personnel management

Article D712-11-2

The purchaser of all or part of the business of a chamber of commerce and industry shall simultaneously inform each public-sector employee concerned and the chamber of commerce and industry that emplo…

AI translation · Updated 5 Nov 2023Open Article
French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 1: Principal penalties

Article L823-11

It is punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 15,000 euros for any person to contract a marriage or recognise a child for the sole purpose of obtaining, or having obtained, a residence pe…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 4: Unauthorised return to French territory in disregard of a removal order

Article L824-11

…ive ban on entry, a ban on returning to French territory, a deportation order or a French territorial ban is liable to three years' imprisonment for re-entering France without authorisation.A foreigne…

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